Making a symbol dynamic in executable

[H . J . Lu]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:16:01PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> That implies, to me, that there might be a way to force just one
> symbol into the dynamic symbol table.  I know very little about this.
> Worst case (in ELF), couldn't we bodge an entry into .dynsym by hand?
> 

Funny you asked. The short answer is no. But we did get a request to add
STV_EXPORT to the ELF visibility in gABI. Right now, we have STV_DEFAULT,
STV_INTERNAL, STV_HIDDEN and STV_PROTECTED. STV_EXPORT does exactly what
you were asking for. If I remembered right, it came from some C++ compiler
people :-).

I think we asked for more info on it and also we have very limited bits
left in st_other. Many people want to use them for different purposes.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)